Professor, Department of English
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Degree	Year	University
Ph.D. 1996 Cambridge M.A. 1992 Jadavpur University B.A. 1989 Jadavpur University

History of the book; bibliography; the 19th century; crime fiction; science fiction; graphic novels; sports and society

BA • Literature and Censorship • Popular and Genre Fiction in the 19th Century • Edgar Allan Poe: A Poetics of Horror • Crime Fiction • English Literature 1830-1900 • English Literature 1900-2000 MA • Modernism and Poetry • Nineteenth Century Women Novelists • Literature of the French Revolution • Science Fiction • History of the Book • The Book in South Asia • R.L. Stevenson • Herman Melville • Modern European Fiction • English Literature 1900-2000 MPhil • Locating literatures

1. ‘The History of the Baptist Mission Press, Serampore’, 2010-12, principal investigator; funding bodies: Bibliographical Society of America, Bibliographical Society UK 2. ‘The Comic Book in India: Prehistory and Continuum’, 2010-11, principal investigator, funding body: British Council of East India 3. ‘Science Fiction and Fandom’, Jan-June 2009, principal investigator, Nehru-Fulbright Foundation, USA 4. ‘Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in the Bengali Language 1868-1947’, principal investigator, funding bodies: University Grants Commission, India; Charles Wallace India Trust 5. ‘Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in the Bengali Language 1801-1867, principal investigator, funding bodies: University Grants Commission, India; Bibliographical Society UK

2005-present: Associate Professor of English, JU 1999-2005:Lecturer and Sr. Lecturer in English,JU 1997-98: Assistant Editor, The Telegraph 1992-93: Sub-editor, The Statesman

Book Title Publisher Name Year Role New Word Order: Transnational Themes in Book History Worldview 2011 Second Author Mad and Madder: Tall Tales of a Fantastic Family (trans. of Manojder odbhut bari) Scholastic 2011 Funny and Funnier (trans. of short stories by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay) Scholastic 2010 Moveable Type: Book History in India 2 Permanent Black 2008 First Author Print Areas: Book History in India Permanent Black 2004 First Author

Name Of The Scholar Title Of The Thesis Co-Superviser Status Year Sandip Ain The Poetics of Silence in Amitav Ghosh Complete 2011 Bhaskar Chowdhury Adhunik bangla sahitya o bikolpo jounota

Name Of The Scholar Thesis Name Co-Superviser Year